The 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index clearly shows that corruption remains a blight around the world. But 2015 was also a year when people again took to the streets to protest corruption. People across the globe sent a strong signal to those in power: it is time to tackle grand corruption, says Jose Ugaz, Chair, Transparency International.

Brazil and Lesotho declined the most in the index, by five points each, in Brazil’s case partly due to the unfolding Petrobras scandal which lead to riots in the country.

In terms of what the world looks like by index score, the below map shows that African and Asian countries are typically more prone to corruption, at least by this year’s scores.

In Angola, 70 percent of the population live on US$2 a day or less. One in six children dies before the age of five – making it the deadliest place in the world to be a child. More than 150,000 children die each year. But not everyone’s suffering.

The disturbing fact is that five of the 10 most corrupt countries also rank among the 10 least peaceful places in the world.

“Corruption will stop only when we collectively fight against it,”says photographer AM Ahad of his sad portrait of the nine-year-old child worker in Bangladesh which tells that instead of going to the school, she spends her days sorting bottles at a recycling factory.

“It is crucial that we change the common mentality of accepting corruption and treat the crime as the terrible thing that it is.”